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For electrical devices that consume energy on standby mode, see Standby power.

In New Age terminology, an energy vampire or psychic vampire is a being said to have the ability to feed off the "life force" (often also called qi, prana, energy or vitality) of other living creatures. Alternative terms for these persons are pranic vampire, empathic vampire, energy predator, psy/psi-vamp, energy parasite, psionic vampire.
Legends

The legends and spiritual teachings of some cultures refer to people, often given priestly attributes, who manipulate or remove (feed from) the energy of others. The tiger-women spoken of across Asia (as well as the fox-women of Japan) and the Jiang Shi of China may be noted, as can the incubus and succubus of Judaeo-Christian mythology. This concept is purported to be represented in the myths of a number of cultures, just as blood-drinking vampires are.

In the oral tradition of the Hopi, a powaqa is a sorcerer who comes to a victim pretending to help and then feeds off the victim's life force (see Powaqqatsi).

Modern interpretations

Dion Fortune wrote of psychic parasitism in relation to vampirism as early as 1930 (considering it a combination of psychic and psychological pathology) in "Psychic Self-Defense".[1][2] The term "psychic vampire" first gained attention in the 1960s with the publication of Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible. LaVey, who claimed to have coined the term,[3] used it to mean a spiritually or emotionally weak person who drains vital energy from other people. Adam Parfrey likewise attributed the term to LaVey in an introduction to The Devil's Notebook.

The theme of the psychic vampire has been a focus within modern Vampyre subculture. The way that the subculture has manipulated the image of the psychic vampire has been investigated by researchers such as Mark Benecke[4] and A. Asbjorn Jon.[5] Jon has noted that, like the traditional psychic vampires, those of Vampyre subculture 'prey[s] upon life-force or 'pranic' energy'.[6] Jon also noted that the group has been loosely linked to the Goth subculture.

In popular fiction

Energy vampires are not as common in literature, comics and movies compared to the more traditional vampires, but the concept nonetheless makes an appearance in a number of popular works. In Lifeforce, a movie from 1985, most of London's population are turned into zombies after their lifeforce has been drained from them. The Wraith of the Stargate universe and the Atavus from Earth: Final Conflict feed on the "lifeforce" of humans. For an example in video games, see the Metroids from the video game Metroid.

In the anime and manga series Sailor Moon, the Dark Kingdom/Negaverse collects the life energy of humans in order to make Queen Metallia grow stronger.

Another example are the White Court Vampires in Jim Butcher's Dresden novels.

In World of Warcraft the Nathrezim (Dreadlords) are vampyric in nature, draining Life Energy fom their victims and devouring their souls [1].

Stephen King has villains as energy or empathetic vampires, these are It or Pennywise from It, Dandelo from The Dark Tower series, Tak from The Regulators and Desperation, and Ardelia Lortz from the short story 'The Library Policeman' from Four Past Midnight. The concept also appears in Sleepwalkers, a 1992 film based off an unpublished novel by King.

L. J. Smith also has a young adult fiction trilogy called Dark Visions which deals with energy vampires (called psychic vampires in the work). In this story, special crystals can store psychic energy. Contact with an impure one will increase psychic powers but will have the side effect of increasing one's life energy metabolism, causing the person to become an energy vampire. In the story, the energy vampires may acquire their needed energy from either a person, or one of the special crystals.

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